Jeremy Corbyn: No War with Iran

Stop the War is asking all its members and supporters to step up organising now against the threat of war on Iran.

As Lindsey German’s statement says, the drone attack that killed Qassem Soleimani is an act of war by Donald Trump which risks creating a cycle of violence. Both Iran and Iraq are likely to retaliate and it will draw in other players across the region and beyond.

The anti-war movement needs to respond strongly and quickly. In London we have called a protest outside Downing Street at 2-3pm tomorrow (Saturday).

We are asking our groups, members and supporters to help in the following ways:

– Organise protest where you are.

– Use the statement signed by Jeremy Corbyn as the basis for a petition in your workplace, university, community,

– Pass resolutions against war with Iran in your union branch, Labour Party or student union.

– Organise a public meeting locally or invite a Stop the War speaker to your union, campaign group of Labour Party branch.

The US assasination of Qasem Soleimani is an extremely serious and dangerous escalation of conflict with global significance. We urge restraint on the part of both the Iran and the US and we call for an end to the belligerent actions and rhetoric coming from the US. Jeremy Corbyn MP

"It's barbarism. I see it coming masqueraded under lawless alliances and predetermined enslavements. It may not be about Hitler's furnaces, but about the methodical and quasi-scientific subjugation of Man. His absolute humiliation. His disgrace"

Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet, in a press conference on the occasion of receiving the Nobel Prize (1979)